Pinto, Mendez, a Portuguese traveller; wrote in his “Peregriniçam” an account of his marvellous adventures in Arabia, Persia, China, and Japan, extending over a period of 21 years (1527-1548), of which, amid much exaggeration, the general veracity is admitted (1510‒1583).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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